Motor-hood.



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Original application filed November 17, 1915, Serial No. 619%. Divided.and this application flied may 3,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, l) Moltn LIVINGSTON, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in thecounty and State oi. New York', have invented a new and improvedMotor-Hood, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This application is a division of an application. filed by me l lovember17, 1915,

joint will be prevented 'from dripping on the motor. Water entering thehood through the top joint of the ordinary hinged hood is liable toshort-circuit the spark plugs and I to otherwise produce undesirableresults or lit! ill

damage. My invention provides at the top of the hood beneath the hingejoint, means forming an. effective gutter to carry to an end of. thehood, any water entering through the hinge joint so that the engine and.ignition system will be effectively protected from drip.

Incidentally, the gutter is employed in connection with a depressedhinge,'that is to say, a hinge depressed in practice to a greater orless extent to present more or less projection relatively to the generaltop surface of the hood. Specifically, the gutter is employed inconnection with a hinge composed of a hinge pin, and hinge membersformed alternately on the adjacent portions of the juxtaposed topsections of the hood, each hinge member being produced by turning thematerial of the hood Serial No. 166,111.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification in which similarreference characters indicatecorresponding parts in all the views, it being understood that thedrawings are merely illustrative of one example-oi the invention.

.liigure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section as far as its general.features are concerned.

The hood shown flares rearwardly and thereby the top hinge joint 25 isan incline.

I provide at the said hinge joint, at the in side thereof, a gutter 2?to receive and conduct to an end of the hood any drip passing throughthe joint. The gutter inclines, in the illustrated example, withtheflare of the hood so that, any water. entering the joint will collect inthe gutter and be conducted forwardly past the engine, but the directionof. the pitch of the gutter is unimportant and may be determinedaccording to a particular design of hood or particular engineinstallation. The joint, in the preferred construction, is formed bybending knuckles on the respective sections of the hood about a hingepin or red 26.

The hinge is of such a form that it may be and preferably is within thegeneral top surface of the hood to present more or less projection abovethe top surface, as desired, the advantage of the minimum projectionbeing a matter solely of taste with respect to the appearance of the topsurface as to Whether it should present a projection at the hinge. Themanner of forming the hinge is best illustrated in Fig. 3, in which itwill be seen that each hinge member (25) is formed by hendingthematerial directly downward. from the body of a hood. section. 18 at thenear side of the hinge pin 26 and carryimg, the hingemember in roundedform beneath the hinge pin to the far side and then over the top of thepin, the hinge member being returned into close proximity with. the bodyof the hood section. on which it is formed. With a hinge as thus formedthe adjacent hood sections 18 may swing through a considerable anglebefore the one section isarrested by contact with the other section."The hinge, it is to be noted, forms part of the general top surface ofthe hood regardless of the extent to which the hinge is depressed. Also,it will be observed that the hinge is disposed directly between thejuxtaposed hood sections and that the gutter is directly beneath thehinge elements.

Notwithstanding that the hinge as thus formed collects water and directsit through the joint, water is prevented by the described gutter frominjuriously affecting the ignition system. V

The gutter 27 in practice, advantageously is curved transversely as bestseen in Fig. 3 and a lateral extension or flange at one side thereof issuitably secured to one section of the hood 18 as by rivets 28 or othermeans, the gutter extending beneath the hinge joint to the opposite sidethereof. The gutter thereby is spaced from the hinge for the ready flowof the drip and the arrangement is such as to insure clearance.

The hinge joint 25 at the sides of the hood may e of any approvedcharacter.

I wish to state in conclusion that although the illustrated exampleconstitutes a practical embodiment of my invention, I do not limitmyself strictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated,since'manifestly the same can be considerably varied without departurefrom the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and-desire to secureby Letters patent:

1. A motor hood having a hinge joint at the top thereof, and a gutter onsaid hood at the interior thereof, beneath the hinge joint. I

2. A motor hood having a longitudinal hinge joint at the top thereof anda gutter connected with the hood at one side of the said joint andextending beneath the hinge joint toward the opposite side thereof.

3. A motor hood formedof sections and having a longitudinal depressedhinge joint atthe top, and a gutter attached to one hood section at oneside of the joint and extending transversely beneath the hinge members,said gutter following generally the lines of the hinge and being spacedfrom the hinge members.

4. A motor hood having a hinge joint at the top thei'eof, and a gutteron said hood at the interior thereof beneath the said hin e joint, thesaid gutter inclining downward y from the rear end to the front end ofthe hood.

5. A motor hood formed of sections and including a hinge joint at thetop of the hood, and a gutter on said hood beneath the hinge joint, saidhinge joint being composed of a hinge pin and hinge members on therespective hood sections directly between juxtaposed. portions thereof.

6. A motor hood formed of sections and including a hinge joint at thetop of the hood, the hinge joint being depressed and disposed directlybetween the juxtaposed hood sections; together with a gutter on the hoodbeneath said depressed hinge joint.

7. A motor hood composed of sections, and a hinge comprised of a hingepin and hinge members on the respective hood sections, each hinge membercomposed of material extending about the pin at the under side, to thefar si e and over the top of the pin toward the sect on on which saidhinge member is formed, said hinge fo ming part of the top surface ofthe hoodand being dcpressed below the general top surface.

8. A motor hood including two sections presenting opposed portions atthe top of the hood, a gutter on the hood beneath both of said opposedportions to catch drip passing between 'the same, and means establishinga hinge connection between said sections directly above the gutter.

9. A motor hood including two sections presenting opposed portions atthe top of the hood, a gutter on the hood beneath both of said portionsto catch drip passing between the same, and means establishing a hingeconnection between said sections.

D McRA LIVINGSTON.

